Paula Irmschler asks in her column whether men could be replaced by AI?
Now let’s say you’re a person who loves pop culture. The really big gestures, the sparkling stars, the great productions in film, television and stadiums, celebrating something together with the masses, being absorbed, really being part of it, the art, the spectacle, great, great! People also like to talk about it! People discuss, share, argue, want to convince: Hey, that’s cool for such and such a reason, and that in turn is probably complete rubbish! And then, for example, you have access to the Internet and therefore constant input about all this exciting pop culture, but also about the people behind it. Her pictures, her statements, gossip about her, scandals. And since you love pop culture so much, you want to know all about it; Maybe it just adds to the greatness!
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Well, and then it’s the case that if you’ve been doing this for a long time and keep finding out things about stars, you might just no longer be able to stand learning new shit about people like men. About grown, successful, rich, powerful men and how they leave a trail of psychological and physical devastation on women and girls. Because they insult her, grope her, harass her, abuse her, you name it. Maybe at some point you just don’t feel like it anymore – and you certainly don’t feel like writing about it or even thinking about it anymore, because at some point it’s good.
For example, because real life is already full of villains and you can’t stand it for another day in the pop world, which you actually want to escape to for distraction – and THEN you might find yourself wondering whether all these men couldn’t just… let’s say, disappear. BUT HOW?
Because while many people are currently rightly discussing how AI endangers art and entertainment, manipulates us all and affects our perception and social aspects, one could also ask oneself to what extent men actually do this in art and entertainment. How much they actually harm us all the time, how much they ruin our days and lives, how much they are constantly flushed into our feeds without being asked and what we can do about it. Whether you shouldn’t warn about their content.
If you look at what famous men are doing right now… groping women on stage, grooming minors, setting up complex delivery systems to abuse fans, freaking out on the Internet, having tearful documentaries made about them in which you’re supposed to watch them, like her violence towards women in her life suffer…
Then I think to myself that maybe, purely theoretically, we could get rid of men first. For example, you could replace them with AI! Put AI in feminist hands and then first prompt men who aren’t complete pigs. Just FOR FUN. We build ourselves the most respectful, coolest, most normal guys who don’t talk too much, who keep their wits about them, who date people the same age who we don’t have to see in biographical documentaries… We then establish them in the charts, films and podcasts… so that we can then switch them off at any time! Purely theoretically.
I hate AI! And I think it should be abolished and contained and outlawed! But if you had to choose…
There is no alternative to taking AI away from men anyway. One case after another comes to light in which men have used AI to create deepfake porn of women or expressed sexually violent fantasies to chatbots.
And then there’s something really bad:
#1 on the Billboard Country Digital Song Sales charts! Wow! But at least this AI guy’s face will never be plastered onto my timeline with the headline that he molested a 15 year old, I’m just telling it like it is!
Paul McCartney and his 1,000 other artists can try their best to stir up sentiment against AI… They got together against a British AI law and released an album at the beginning of the year on which only noises can be heard. The thing is called “Is This What We Want?” and the message is: Without us artists, there is nothing that companies could mess up with their AIs, which is exactly what that law wants to allow. And McCartney has now added a (silent) track for the vinyl version. I would link it to you, but it’s only available on vinyl and it’s quiet anyway, so you can imagine.
Instead, here’s this song by Sabrina Carpenter!
Does Sabrina Carpenter sometimes sound or look like AI? Perhaps! But she also sings the wonderful line: “I get wet at the thought of you being a responsible guy.”
So, we have long known what men do. And with AI in hand, things get even worse. Nothing less than the destruction of civilization is upon us, as Jesse Armstrong’s film “Mountainhead” attempted to portray satirically.
Four super rich people meet, they are all involved in AI business, the world is ending, and they think about how they can use this to further their interests. Cool idea, cool actors, but unfortunately totally boring. Even satire about AI men is boring and sad. Is this what we want? NO!
Like the writer Joyce Carol Oates stated in her burn against Elon Muskthey are just hollow figures.
So let’s push them out, first the men, then the AI. Just an idea. More soon.
What happened so far? Here is an overview of all the pop column texts.
